The Effect of Psychological Factors
and Ecotourism on Residents’ Ecological
Behavior in National Park in China

Lin, Xuan; Delin, Huang

doi:10.15244/pjoes/127913

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“…Concessions is one of the effective ways to guarantee the successful transformation of livelihoods of residents who are affected by ecological protection, and to alleviate community conflicts and prevent community conflicts 58 . It has also been shown that this approach encourages conservation behavior and contributes to achieving sustainable utilization of resources 31,59 . However, there is no such discovery in the EDT.…”

Section: Nonideal Effects Of Concessionmentioning

confidence: 99%

Influencing factors of community residents' pro-environmental behavior in East Dongting Lake National Nature Reserve under the policy intervention

Tang

Yuan

Zeng

2023

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In the study of protected areas, the "Fences & fines" approach is increasingly becoming acknowledged as obsolete and ineffectual, and there is mounting evidence suggesting that the "Community-based conservation" approach is acquiring consideration. It is significant to identify which protection model or factors perform a definitive part in China. Taking the East Dongting Lake National Nature Reserve in China as a survey site, this paper utilizes semi-structured interviews and random questionnaires surveyed 431 households to investigate the relationship between "community-based conservation" approaches such aslegal system, ecological compensation, environmental education, community participation, concessions, livelihoods, job provision, intrinsic motivation and pro-environmental behavior. The regression results declare that intrinsic motivation (β = 0.390) and legal system (β = 0.212) are the most effective factors impacting on pro-environmental behavior; concessions has a negative conflict on preservation;but other "community-based conservation" approaches had insignificant positive impacts on pro-environmental behavior. Further mediating effects analysis indicated that intrinsic motivation (B = 0.3899, t = 11.9694, p < 0.01) mediates between legal system and pro-environmental behavior of community residents, legal system promotes pro-environmental behavior by promoting intrinsic motivation, which is more effective than legal system promoting pro-environmental behavior directly. This demonstrates that “Fence and fine approach" still is an effective management tool which can shape community residents' positive attitude towards conservation and pro-environmental behavior especially protected areas with large communities. And appropriate "community-based conservation" approaches can mitigate conflicts between special groups with the combination of these two approaches, the management of protected areas can be successful. This supplies a valuable real-world case for the current debate on conservation and improved human livelihoods.

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Section: Nonideal Effects Of Concessionmentioning

confidence: 99%

Influencing factors of community residents' pro-environmental behavior in East Dongting Lake National Nature Reserve under the policy intervention

Tang

Yuan

Zeng

2023

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“…How closely someone identifies with nature is strongly allied to the attitudes that he or she acquires (Schultz et al, 2004). Several studies have found that AT had the most significant affiliation (Al Rousan et al, 2022;Dybsand and Stensland, 2022;Fenitra et al, 2021;Huang et al, 2014;Lin and Huang, 2021;Miller, 2019;Sujood et al, 2021a;Xu et al, 2021;Zhang et al, 2022) or simply no affiliation (Esfandiar et al, 2020) to the intention concerning national Urban tourists' intention towards national parks parks. Based on the foregoing empirical and conceptual grounds, the hypothesis is proposed as follows:…”

Section: Attitude (At)mentioning

confidence: 99%

“…In the travel and tourism discourse, statistics from existing studies illustrate that travellers' beliefs about whether their family, friends or coworkers would support their decision to go to a certain vacation spot affects their travel plans (Abbasi et al, 2021). Many studies have documented an important and beneficial link between SN and intentions in the setting of national parks (Esfandiar et al, 2020;Fenitra et al, 2021;Goh et al, 2016;Lin and Huang, 2021;Miller, 2019;Seong and Hong, 2021;Sujood et al, 2022;Xu et al, 2021;Zhang et al, 2022). The subsequent hypothesis has been constructed on the aforementioned premises.…”

Section: Attitude (At)mentioning

confidence: 99%

“…Individuals' judgments about something are frequently limited by their intellectual level, awareness and external influences, instead of just being based on a feeling of objectivity and reason, in the majority of instances (Jia et al, 2022). A variety of study findings (Esfandiar et al, 2020;Fenitra et al, 2021;Jia et al, 2022;Lin and Huang, 2021;Miller, 2019;Seong and Hong, 2021;Xu et al, 2021;Zhang et al, 2022) have demonstrated that PBC is positively linked to the intention with regard to national parks. After evaluating all of the above discourse, the next hypothesis has been articulated as follows:…”

Section: Perceived Behavioural Control (Pbc)mentioning

confidence: 99%

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Urban tourists' intention towards visiting national parks: an exertion of theory of planned behaviour and expectancy theory

Rousan

Siddiqui

Bano

et al. 2023

JHTI

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PurposeThis study aims to evaluate the key factors affecting the behavioural intention of urban tourists towards visiting national parks by integrating the theory of planned behaviour (TPB) and expectancy theory (ET).Design/methodology/approachData were collected from urban tourists using an online questionnaire developed through Google forms. A total of 489 valid online questionnaires were considered for this study. The proposed research model was empirically evaluated using the structural equation modelling method.FindingsAccording to the results of this research, TPB constructs are significantly and positively associated with the behavioural intention of urban tourists towards visiting national parks in India and out of ET constructs, only expectancy and valence are significantly and positively associated with behavioural intention while instrumentality does not.Research limitations/implicationsThis study manifests the behaviour of urban tourists towards national parks and contributes to academics by incorporating existing literature. The findings of this study also help policymakers in formulating innovative strategies for national parks. It presents an integrated framework that lays the platform for a new study domain on urban tourists' intentions to visit national parks, which will be useful to urban managers, officials and the tourism sector. Furthermore, as the scope of this study is confined to assessing the intentions of urban tourists toward visiting national parks, it is difficult to generalize the findings.Originality/valueTo the best of the authors' knowledge, this is the first research of its kind to provide an understanding of the behavioural intention of urban tourists towards visiting the national parks in India by optimizing the TPB and ET.

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“…Zhang et al [57] showed that ATT, SN, and PBC significantly influence farmers' intentions toward climate change adaptation. Lin and Huang [58] showed that residents' ATT, SN, and PBC have significant positive influences on their ecological intentions.…”

Section: Research Hypothesesmentioning

confidence: 99%

Green Energy and Water Resource Management: A Case Study of Fishery and Solar Power Symbiosis in Taiwan

Chen

Kuo

2022

Water

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Renewable energy development is a key pathway for mitigating climate change. The Taiwan government has been actively developing low carbon green energy with solar photovoltaic technology and wind power as their primary development projects. Cigu Taiwan provides an ideal research site to examine tradeoffs between ecological conservation, marine fisheries, and green power development, and the factors affect commitments to ecological conservation in the face of these tradeoffs. This research investigates the fishery and electricity symbiosis project in Cigu through a novel combination of the theory of planned behavior and the contingent valuation method to analyze the factors influencing the local residents’ behavioral intentions to safeguard ecological achievements in ecologically fragile areas through conservation trust funds. Analysis of survey responses from a convenience sample of 715 residents and resource users in the Cigu area reports that attitudes (ATT), subjective norms (SN), perceived behavioral control (PBC), environmental concern (EC), and environmental risk (ER) significantly influence the behavioral intention to pay eco-compensation fees; the local residents’ willingness to pay for the conservation trust funds was NTD 621.4/year (USD 21.9/year), and decreased to NTD 545.9/year (USD 19.2/year) after the implementation of fishery and electricity symbiosis. The discussion section argues that the drivers of ATT, SN, PBC, EC, and ER can be used by policy makers to direct local residents’ intentions and behavior toward conserving ecological achievements in fragile eco-environmental areas through payments for ecosystem services. Thus, this strategy can improve the sustainability of ecological and environmental restoration programs.

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The Effect of Psychological Factors and Ecotourism on Residents’ Ecological Behavior in National Park in China

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Influencing factors of community residents' pro-environmental behavior in East Dongting Lake National Nature Reserve under the policy intervention

Influencing factors of community residents' pro-environmental behavior in East Dongting Lake National Nature Reserve under the policy intervention

Urban tourists' intention towards visiting national parks: an exertion of theory of planned behaviour and expectancy theory

Green Energy and Water Resource Management: A Case Study of Fishery and Solar Power Symbiosis in Taiwan

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